Blind-slat journal



(No Model.) V

E. P. NE WELL. BLIND SLAT JOURNAL.

No. 552,541. Patented Jan; 7, 1896.

Fig. 2. x 11.

With asses; Inventor,

NrrEn STATES I EDIVIN F. NEWVELL, OF MIDDLETOVVN, CONNECTICUT.

BLlND-SLAT JOURNAL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 552,541, dated January *7, 1896.

Application filed August 5, 1895.

To aZZ whom it may concerm.

Be it known that I, EDWIN l NEWELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Middletown, in the count-y of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Blind-Slat J our- 'nals, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an attachment for a blind or shutter slat, and the object of the invention is to provide a repair-j ournal in the nature of a sheet-metal tenon or attachment that can be quickly and easily attached to a slat when in the manipulation of the blind or slat the ordinary wooden tenon has been broken or worn oif and without the removal of the slat from the blind or shutter.

A further object of the invention is to provide an attachment that is simple and durable. in construction and can be readily stamped out of sheet metal in the nature of flat wire at one operation and at a minimum cost.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification, Figure 1 represent-s a portion of the shutter or blind having slats secured in position thereon by means of this improved attachment, a portion of the shutter being sh own in section to more clearly illustrate this improved attachment. Fig. 2 is a partially sectional view taken in line CH1, Fig. 1, looking toward the right hand thereof. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view of one of the side frames of a shutter having a slat in position thereon and showing a longitudinal sectional view of the attachment. Fig. 4 is an end view of the tenon detached; and'Fig. 5 is a longitudinal sectional view of the tenon, also detached. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of a ten on provided with bent ends or projections.

Similar characters represent like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

This improved attachment or tenon comprises a suitable device adapted for attachment to a blind or shutter slat when the ordinary wooden tenon formed on the slat has in the manipulation of the blind or slat been broken off and which device can be quickly and easily attached to a slat without the removal of the same from the shutter 0r blind.

In movable slats of shutters or blinds as ordinarily constructed the ordinary wooden tenons forming the journals on which the slats oscillate frequently break off, whereby the Serial No. 558,235- (No model.)

slats become inoperative, and with two or three such slats in a shutter such shutter becomes worthless and an unsightly object, and as these wooden tenons are formed on the slats there is no means of remedying this defeet without'replacing the broken slat by an entirely new slat, which necessarily requires the shutter to be taken apart to insert the slat.

In order to remedy the above defect I have devised an attachment more especially adapted for the use of painters and other artisans who desire to repair broken shutters or blinds while at work upon a house and which can be quickly and easily attached without taking the shutter or blind apart or without even taking the shutter from its hinges. This improved slat attachment, in the preferred form thereof herein shown and described, comprises a metal tenon, preferably composed of flat wire, (designated in a general way by A and consisting of a substantially cylindrical journal. 10,) having elongated laterally-extending flanges 11,- provided with apertures 12 for the reception of nails or screws for attaching the tenon to the end of a blind-slat.

These flanges may, if desired, be provided at their outer ends with bent projections 17 which can be inserted into the blind-slat to hold the same thereon while the nails are being hammered into the slat and which would also serve as a reinforcing attaching means to hold the device onto the slat.

The journal 10 of the tenon is preferably U-shaped in cross-section and is provided with inwardly-turned sides or flaps 14, whereby the journal ,forms a substantially cylindrical bearing=surface for the journal-bearing 15 in the side frames of the shutter.

The entire device may be quickly and easily stamped out of sheet metal in the nature of flat wire in the preferred form thereof at one operation and placed on the market for sale at a nominal cost.

In the use of this improved device, when a slat has its tenon broken and it is desired to repair the slat, the same is slightly pushed sidewise from the usual j ournal-recess 15 in the side frames of the shutter, whereupon the journal 10 of the attachment can be easily insorted into its j ournal-recess 15. The slat is then turned in a horizontal position or substantially so, and the flanges 11 can be secured onto the ends of the slats by nails 16 or other suitable devices, whereby the slat is again in condition for use.

When an entire slat has fallen out, it is simply necessary to secure one of these improved attachments to one end thereof, insert its journal in the journal-recess of one side frame of the shutter, then insert the journal of another attachment in the j ournalrecess of the opposite side frame, and then secure it to the end of the slat in the usual Way, whereby the necessity of taking the shutter apart to replace a slat is obviated.

By this improved shutter or blind slat attachment the unsightly appearance of a shutter or blind When one end of a slat or slats has become separated from its side frame and hangs to the shutter only by its other end or when the slat has fallen entirely out is obviated and the cost of repairing the shutters materially decreased. By having this tenon composed of sheet metal in the nature of fiat Wire the same can be stamped out at one operation, as hereinbefore stated, ready to be placed on the market, which is not the case with tenons made of sheet metal other than flat-Wire sheet metal.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. The flat-Wire journal, its middle portion forming the end of a tenon, and the immediately-adjacent portions bent at right angles to the middle portion and parallel With each other and concaved on their inner sides, forming a tenon open at its sides throughout its length; and extensions diverging at right angles from the tenon thus formed and adapted for attachment to the end of the blind-slat.

2. The fiat-Wire journal, its middle portion forming the end of a tenon, and the immediately-adjacent portions bent at right angles to the middle portion and parallel with each other and concaved on their inner sides, forming a tenon open at its sides throughout its length; extensions diverging at right angles from the tenon thus formed, and each of said extensions having a bent projection at its end adapted for attachment to the end of the blindslat.

EDWIN F. NEWELL.

Witnesses:

FRED. J. DOLE, R. W. PITTMAN. 

